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In economic experiments, CEOs are found to be more cooperative and less prone to inefficient strategic economic behavior compared to others. They also earn more money from their decisions even though individually they are not more rational. This is shown by the economist HJ Holm and colleagues, who have used economic games to study the strategic decision-making of CEOs. The results are summarized in a new SNS-report.

Why do women remain underrepresented in the upper part of the earnings distribution despite decades of progress in terms of gender equality? Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, presents her research on the so-called glass ceiling prevails and why it prevails.